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 Ray Hughes on Formal Education for Ministers: A Voice from the Past Speaks Today |
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| Ray H. Hughes, in his book “Pentecostal Preaching” writes, “A man’s best may not always include formal education. Circumstances, responsibility, age, and many other factors make it impractical, if not impossible, for some men to prepare themselves formally for Christian ministry. Every man’s preparation, however, will include giving God one’s best…This giving of one’s best will certainly require those who have the opportunity for formal training to walk that path tenaciously, regardless of hardship or expense…[Some] men have not the self-discipline, the fortitude, or the courage to pursue a consistent course of study…and they condemn those who honestly seek knowledge through formal study…The ministry demands a lifelong commitment to study and research…there will never come a time when the successful preacher can cease reading and studying.” |
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7/30/16 9:41 pm
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Cojak |
This has been the attitude of ministers from my early life, my dad included. With a formal 3rd grade education, when he felt a call on his life in the 1920's he began to study, and with mama's help he never ceased to study.
He was a very good preacher and an excellent pastor. He always pushed for ministers to seek education, including his son and son in law. The son should have, but I never did become educated, but his son in law did. and became a very successful state overseer. I, on the other hand, was a good pastor but never should have been a preacher to start with, I wasn't good at it anyway.
Ray Hughes has some insight needed today. 
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7/30/16 11:42 pm
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Many years ago I sat in a class when the COG was promoting the Ministerial Enrichment Program. The class was held on the North Georgia camp grounds. The teacher made an emphatic statement saying,."I hope the time never comes when the Church of God has a formal educational requirement for its ministry." (May not be an exact quote but is what was said) The teacher of that class was Charles W. Conn.
I have some education. My highest earned is a Masters from what is now known as the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. So I am not against education. I have preached for many years that a Christian life is a life of learning and growing. I do not see that as anything other than a lifetime, ongoing, unending process. But I would never vote to make specific requirement of formal education a test for ministry in the Church of God. |
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7/31/16 7:58 pm
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| DrDuck wrote: | Many years ago I sat in a class when the COG was promoting the Ministerial Enrichment Program. The class was held on the North Georgia camp grounds. The teacher made an emphatic statement saying,."I hope the time never comes when the Church of God has a formal educational requirement for its ministry." (May not be an exact quote but is what was said) The teacher of that class was Charles W. Conn.
I have some education. My highest earned is a Masters from what is now known as the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. So I am not against education. I have preached for many years that a Christian life is a life of learning and growing. I do not see that as anything other than a lifetime, ongoing, unending process. But I would never vote to make specific requirement of formal education a test for ministry in the Church of God. |
DD, if you have a legitimately accredited masters you have more than just "some education." You have with that masters earned more than the vast majority of credentialed COG ministers. Not that that makes ya any better then the other fellers, but you availed yaself of the opportunity.
I would not vote to make an undergrad degree a requirement for the Exhorter level of credentialing. With the Exhorter, a feller can preach, publish & defend the gospel. He can pastor a church. He can marry the livin an bury the dead. But in a Pikeville Kentucky split second I would vote for a undergrad requirement for Ordination in the COG. |
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7/31/16 9:52 pm
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Cojak |
| DrDuck wrote: | Many years ago I sat in a class when the COG was promoting the Ministerial Enrichment Program. The class was held on the North Georgia camp grounds. The teacher made an emphatic statement saying,."I hope the time never comes when the Church of God has a formal educational requirement for its ministry." (May not be an exact quote but is what was said) The teacher of that class was Charles W. Conn.
I have some education. My highest earned is a Masters from what is now known as the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. So I am not against education. I have preached for many years that a Christian life is a life of learning and growing. I do not see that as anything other than a lifetime, ongoing, unending process. But I would never vote to make specific requirement of formal education a test for ministry in the Church of God. |
I hope it doesn't come to that, I can't see it enriching the ministry, but limiting some REAL work horses in the fields of the Lord. JMO! 
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